Billy Liar (1963)
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Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is known to his blue-collar British mates as Billy Liar because of his vivid imagination. This film version of the Keith Waterhouse-Willis Hall stage play "visualizes" some of Billy's more outrageous fabrications. He periodically escapes the drudgery of his job at a funeral parlor by conjuring up impossible adventures, usually involving the conquest of women. In one of her first film roles, Julie Christie plays one of two "real" girls who wish that Billy would come
Jan 1, 1963 Wide
Jan 1, 1998
Continental
Cast
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Tom Courtenay
Billy Fisher -
Julie Christie
Liz -
Wilfred Pickles
Geoffrey Fisher -
Mona Washbourne
Alice Fisher -
Finlay Currie
Duxbury -
Ethel Griffies
Florence -
Rodney Bewes
Arthur Crabtree -
Helen Fraser
Barbara -
George Innes
Eric Stamp -
Leonard Rossiter
Shadrack -
Godfrey Winn
Himself -
Ernest Clark
Prison Governor -
Leslie Randall
Danny Boone -
Gwendolyn Watts
Rita -
Patrick Barr
Insp. Macdonald -
Anna Wing
Mrs. Crabtree -
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One of the great movies of the 1960's.
Not many classic films have also enjoyed success as a book, play, sitcom and musical. It's testament to the timelessness of Keith Waterhouse's source novel ...
A key work of the New British Cinema, Billy Liar features the impressive debut of director John Schlesinger and his first teaming with Julie Christie (before Darling).
Even though it's a seminal movie of the sixties, it never reached me emotionally.
... this portrait of ambition aching to break out of suffocating conformity and social expectation is viewed through the prism of fantasy and puckish humor...
Brill.
a unique work in the British New Cinema movement
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- Billy Liar (1963) (DE)
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